I recently installed Ubuntu, and I want to add a PPA for MAXE-TV, however I get this error when I try and use the PPA:

E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/venerix/pkg/ubuntu artful Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I also cannot download anything, and this is a pretty annoying issue.

What exactly is wrong?

I add first
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/pkg
It comes up a window saying that are you sure you want to install TV-MAXE
and i click enter
Then I write sudo apt-get update
and the errors up there comes up, it just says that it's uploading the file nothing else :/

Please review my edits, I tried to make your question more understandable but I am not 100% certain I captured everything you were aiming for. (Also please don't use phrases like 'WTF', there's no need for obscenities here)
– Thomas Ward♦Mar 5 '18 at 16:22

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/pkg when i'm adding that i can confirm that i want to download the file but when i write in the terminal sudo apt-get update this error comes up
– Simon WahlgrenMar 5 '18 at 16:43

FYI, if you actually had read the output from sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/pkg you would have seen the "Supported Versions" line stops at 14.10, indicating you should't have added the PPA to begin with, and that the PPA is no longer updated or maintained.
– Thomas Ward♦Mar 5 '18 at 17:38

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I highly doubt that you can't download anything, but I can say with certainty that the issue you're getting with that PPA is because the maintainer hasn't updated the PPA since Utopic Unicorn - which is 14.10 and is long past end of life.

There are no packages in that PPA for Artful, so you cannot use that PPA for Artful. This is why you're getting the "does not have a Release file" error - there is no packages for Artful so the Release file doesn't exist.

You need to remove the PPA since you cannot use it - there is no other option to resolve this error. You can remove it with the following command in the Terminal:

sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/venerix-ubuntu-pkg*.list*

Then run sudo apt-get update again.

You cannot use this repository for tv-maxe anymore. It does not work.
You must remove this repository to get rid of that error about that repository.

I did what you said, but then when i try to install maxe tv it doesen't work what could be wrong, the same error comes up
– Simon WahlgrenMar 6 '18 at 14:53

@Simon Again, you cannot use that repository. You need to remove the repository from the system with the commands I gave you. You also cannot install MAXE-TV with that repository, because the repository does not support 17.10
– Thomas Ward♦Mar 6 '18 at 15:00

If i download a earlier version of ubuntu, will it work then? :)
– Simon WahlgrenMar 6 '18 at 15:11

@SimonWahlgren No. Use the instructions in my answer to remove teh venerix PPA. Then use this entire set of commands and see if that helps to install the app: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:trebelnik-stefina/tv-maxe && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tv-maxe
– Thomas Ward♦Mar 6 '18 at 15:37

okay,,, thanks you're really good at ubuntu so i can use tv-maxe in 17.10? so I don't need to dowgrade or anything :) okay, so all i do is to open the terminal, copy the first thing with the delete venerix and then past these last things? :)
– Simon WahlgrenMar 6 '18 at 15:48